Apart from declaring the Punjabi a ‘rustic’ language, the colonialists after the introduction of Urdu as official language at lower and middle level, initiated a politically motivated scholarly endeavour, subtly urging the different religious communities in Punjab, particularly Hindus and Muslims to search their identities based on the languages which were not theirs.
It was a classic tactic to divide the people speaking the same language. The Hindi-Urdu controversy is a good example to
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